Home Farm by Janet Sutherland Julian Flanagan A series of lyrical charms

A series of lyrical charms inspired by Anglo-Saxon texts draw on the specificity of the botanical and its spoken heritage

There are also poems about innocence and responsibility which ask what it means to bring new human beings into this world

While it remembers the dead throughout

In Angel Hill the imaginations of poet and painter intermingle and two exacting wildernesses productively overlap

Home Farm by Janet Sutherland Julian Flanagan A series of lyrical charmsIn her fourth collection Janet Sutherland explores the farm where she grew up; a 90 acre dairy farm in Wiltshire, rented by her parents, where they milked 50 cows and reared heifers on the nearby water meadows. The collection examines the farm as home from early beginnings to the farm auction at the end of their working lives. It is a poetry of landscape and water, of birds, beasts and other creatures, of life lived cheek by jowl with death, of memory